Big Data News & Articles

You say infographic, I say data visualization. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to, right? It seems that every day a new graphic representation of data shows up begging us to zoom in, scroll and otherwise engage, but how you get to the final result comes down to the using the right data and the right tool. We can’t help you with your data, but we can help you find the right tool. We compiled our list of the tools for creating infographics and data visuals. Today, we present our top five tools for creating infographics.

While most branding experts have come to agree that social media platforms such as Facebook are necessary customer relationship tools in the 21st century, many of them still have a hard time stating exactly why this is so. Quantifying the value Facebook provides branding efforts is not an easy task, but Polygraph Media is releasing a new application called Polygraph Reports aimed at making determining the hard value of Facebook branding efforts a little easier.

If EMC’s CEO Joe Tucci aimed to put its partners' collective mind at rest over the fate of Documentum, then Jeremy Burton, the company’s CMO, was there to outline where EMC is going with the cloud and Big Data.

Usually it’s the Monday of any given vendor conference that the big news gets released. In the case of EMC, it was the partner conference yesterday in Las Vegas (Sunday) that set the tone for a conference that looks set to be full of interesting nuggets. Two big things came out of it yesterday, both of them issues where many people wanted to see what EMC would say.

It’s the eve of Facebook’s IPO and everyone, and I mean everyone, is talking about it.

With Sapphire Now, SAP’s annual gathering coming to a close later today, it’s hardly surprising that there is a bit of something for everyone. There’s cloud, mobile and databases, with the ERP king announcing the release of around 70 apps that do different things with different systems.

The company that leverages data best will win the future. That’s the business credo of 2012. It’s easy to say, but not so easy to do, especially at the enterprise level.

Big data and the tools to manage it have become an almost constant topic of discussion, and NoSQL, a general category of non-relational data storage tools designed to store large volumes of loosely structured data, is frequently at the center of these conversations. However, not everyone is enamored with NoSQL. A recent report by Information Week, “Why NoSQL Equals No Security,” suggests that security is barely an afterthought in NoSQL repositories. Is this a valid assessment or just a bit more hyperbole in a market that seems to gravitate toward tabloid style sensationalism?

The problem with using data to make critical business decisions is not only that there is so much of it, but, increasingly, it’s in hard-to-reach locations -- social media, Web and cloud apps. Now, Kapow Software and Informatica Corporation are working to do something about that.

Despite CEO chaos, Yahoo is taking advantage of its interclick purchase to leverage big data for advertisers. Yahoo's Genome advertising solution should be available in July 2012.

Everyone’s talking about Big Data, even your grandmother has probably heard of it. “I don’t much about it, but I know it’s important,” my 90-year old father-in-law told me when I brought it up in a conversation.

I bet he's not the only one still trying to figure it out. Then comes the big data appliance -- bring on the head swirling effects.

Digital marketing/e-commerce software provider EPiServer is scaling its technology offering to more effectively handle Big Data with the purchase of Swedish enterprise search solution vendor 200OK AB. The 200OK AB cloud-based “Truffler” application can handle large volumes of Big Data, including user data, social and mobile web content, and product and online transaction information.

E-retailers have a habit of sending messages at least once or twice a day to their database of customer email addresses, regardless of who they are or the last time they made a purchase. Marketing managers are still attempting to unravel the mystery of what makes some people open and read their messages and others immediately trash them.

There is one obvious clue -- settling for mass blasts will do nothing for garnering positive attention.

Social customer experience solutions provider Lithium Technologies is targeting companies that feel overwhelmed by exponential volumes of social media chatter with its new release. Called Lithium Response, the application is designed to allow brands to monitor and engage in relevant social media conversations without having to employ a small army of social media agents.

In an effort to expand its Smarter Commerce customer experience initiative, IBM is purchasing Tealeaf Technology Inc., a specialty provider of customer experience analytics software. Tealeaf’s software suite is designed to analyze online and mobile consumer interactions to detect patterns and issues.